The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.

I'm always trying to swim to new ground.

My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things.

Never settle for anything less than you want.

Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love.